The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
Theodor AdornoTriviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.
Theodor AdornoAuschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyโre only animals.
Theodor Adorno